| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment | Regional Studies | 2005 | 4,136 |
| 2 | Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Regional Economic Growth | Regional Studies | 2007 | 1,686 |
| 3 | How does insertion in global value chains affect upgrading in industrial clusters? | Regional Studies | 2002 | 1,674 |
| 4 | The Learning Region: Institutions, Innovation and Regional Renewal | Regional Studies | 1997 | 1,404 |
| 5 | The Economic Performance of Regions | Regional Studies | 2003 | 1,169 |
| 6 | Proximity and Localization | Regional Studies | 2005 | 1,001 |
| 7 | The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory | Regional Studies | 2009 | 935 |
| 8 | Territorial Innovation Models: A Critical Survey | Regional Studies | 2003 | 794 |
| 9 | Towards an Evolutionary Perspective on Regional Resilience | Regional Studies | 2015 | 789 |
| 10 | Do Institutions Matter for Regional Development? | Regional Studies | 2013 | 714 |
| 11 | Constructing Regional Advantage: Platform Policies Based on Related Variety and Differentiated Knowledge Bases | Regional Studies | 2011 | 706 |
| 12 | US Regional Income Convergence: A Spatial Econometric Perspective | Regional Studies | 1999 | 688 |
| 13 | The Determinants of Regional Variation in New Firm Formation | Regional Studies | 2002 | 670 |
| 14 | Cross-national Comparisons of the Variation in New Firm Formation Rates | Regional Studies | 1994 | 650 |
| 15 | Cool Projects, Boring Institutions: Temporary Collaboration in Social Context | Regional Studies | 2002 | 640 |
| 16 | Creativity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis of New Firm Formation | Regional Studies | 2004 | 640 |
| 17 | Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance | Regional Studies | 2004 | 639 |
| 18 | Smart Specialization, Regional Growth and Applications to European Union Cohesion Policy | Regional Studies | 2015 | 624 |
| 19 | Regions, Globalization, Development | Regional Studies | 2003 | 598 |
| 20 | Collective Learning, Tacit Knowledge and Regional Innovative Capacity | Regional Studies | 1999 | 589 |
| 21 | Industrial Districts: Old Wine in New Bottles? | Regional Studies | 1992 | 558 |
| 22 | Research and Development, Spillovers, Innovation Systems, and the Genesis of Regional Growth in Europe | Regional Studies | 2008 | 512 |
| 23 | On the Role Played by Temporary Geographical Proximity in Knowledge Transmission | Regional Studies | 2008 | 507 |
| 24 | The Project Ecology of Advertising: Tasks, Talents and Teams | Regional Studies | 2002 | 494 |
| 25 | Creating a Cluster While Building a Firm: Entrepreneurs and the Formation of Industrial Clusters | Regional Studies | 2005 | 486 |
| 26 | Spatial Transfer of Knowledge in High Technology Milieux: Learning Versus Collective Learning Processes | Regional Studies | 1999 | 468 |
| 27 | Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigour and Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies | Regional Studies | 1999 | 466 |
| 28 | Beyond the Territorial Fix: Regional Assemblages, Politics and Power | Regional Studies | 2007 | 464 |
| 29 | The concept of accessibility: A search for an operational form | Regional Studies | 1971 | 457 |
| 30 | Regional Innovation Systems: Theory, Empirics and Policy | Regional Studies | 2011 | 455 |
| 31 | Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions in Regional Studies | Regional Studies | 2012 | 444 |
| 32 | Effects of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time | Regional Studies | 2004 | 440 |
| 33 | Collective Learning and Knowledge Development in the Evolution of Regional Clusters of High Technology SMEs in Europe | Regional Studies | 1999 | 439 |
| 34 | Regional Competitiveness: An Elusive yet Key Concept? | Regional Studies | 2004 | 429 |
| 35 | How Regions React to Recessions: Resilience and the Role of Economic Structure | Regional Studies | 2016 | 428 |
| 36 | Collective Learning and Relational Capital in Local Innovation Processes | Regional Studies | 2005 | 424 |
| 37 | In what sense a regional problem? | Regional Studies | 1979 | 420 |
| 38 | Growth Regimes over Time and Space | Regional Studies | 2002 | 420 |
| 39 | Competitiveness of Regions from an Evolutionary Perspective | Regional Studies | 2004 | 413 |
| 40 | Borders, Border Regions and Territoriality: Contradictory Meanings, Changing Significance | Regional Studies | 1999 | 407 |
| 41 | The Spatial Clustering of Science and Capital: Accounting for Biotech Firm-Venture Capital Relationships | Regional Studies | 2002 | 406 |
| 42 | What do we know about geographical knowledge spillovers and regional growth?: A survey of the literature | Regional Studies | 2006 | 399 |
| 43 | Proximity and Innovation: From Statics to Dynamics | Regional Studies | 2015 | 398 |
| 44 | Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities | Regional Studies | 2004 | 392 |
| 45 | Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda | Regional Studies | 2017 | 392 |
| 46 | Regional Governance Matters: Quality of Government within European Union Member States | Regional Studies | 2014 | 389 |
| 47 | Between Development and Social Policies: The Impact of European Structural Funds in Objective 1 Regions | Regional Studies | 2004 | 381 |
| 48 | Collective Learning Processes, Networking and ‘Institutional Thickness' in the Cambridge Region | Regional Studies | 1999 | 379 |
| 49 | Migration and Social Mobility: South East England as an Escalator Region | Regional Studies | 1992 | 367 |
| 50 | Regional Development and the Competitive Dynamics of Global Production Networks: An East Asian Perspective | Regional Studies | 2009 | 361 |
